‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ Now The Met’s Best-Attended Fashion Exhibit in History

Last night, “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” officially surpassed the 2008 comic-themed “Superheros: Fashion and Fantasy” show in number of visitors, making it the most popular runway-related show in the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The late designer’s buzzed-about collection has attracted 582,000 people since its opening in May, and will continue to rack up the numbers for another week. “Savage Beauty” will close at midnight on August 7 after an unprecedented extension.

Where did the phenomenal popularity come from? The Times points to Kate Middleton’s wedding dress (designed by Sarah Burton for the line), the designer’s roguish drug-riddled reputation that dogged him during his lifetime, and the grisly details surrounding his suicide.

Those points aside, the success probably stems from the show itself.

“In a museum,” Mr. Wilson writes, “clothes that suggest romanticism, battles between darkness and light, between love and sadness, or even life and death, take on new meaning.”

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